GRE Word List
CHANT
to make melodic sounds with the voice
The meaning of the word chant is to make melodic sounds with the voice.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| shack | hut |
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| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
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| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |